The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-10-23
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A SPREAD or IDEAS FROM VARIOUS
BRAINS on VARIOUS THINGS.


Territories as stat~s-New Poetry The
Anarchists-Powers Of the supreme
Court-George w. Childs- shake
sperean Monument.
There is reason to believe that the re-
sisting power of Congress will be put to
a supseme test at the next session by the
worst kind OF an omnibus bill-one fol-
the concurrent admission OF no less than
four territories to the dignity OF States.
The last Territory that underwent this
magical transformation from the gruD 10
the butterfly was Colorado The door
was prematurely opened to her in 1876.
! As that wear was the hundredth anniyer-
sary Of the birth Of the Republic, she was
called the Centennial State" We do
not goto the length Of saying that we
should wait a hundred years more before
| letting I'm another State. But there Is
nothing in our experience with Colorado
that inclncs us 10 add thirty.ninth
State TO the already swollen list, much
less TO run up the number to iorty-two
Politically. AS many of our readers
doubtless remember. the admission OF
/ Colorado proved to be the most gigantic
mistake committed by the Democratic
party I'm ifs long career OF laundering. IL
was a pure confidence game In which the
Democratic members of Congress were
over reached. and paid for their folly by
the defeat of their Presidential candidate
II Colorado had not been admitted sine
would not have been able 20 cast three
votes IN the electoral college, for Mr.
Hayes and Mr. ilden would have receiy
ed the undi-puted majority of votes in
that body.-'Iowh~ NJ tommefcf
As to the Illinois law f0r empannel
ling iurics which The Anarchists claim 90
De unconstitutional. the New York Times
says
This law provides that the fact that "a
person has formed an opinion or impress
sion based upon rumor or newspaper
statements shall not disQualify him from
serving as Juror I'm any case IF me shall
state upon oath that be believes he can rem
der fair and impartial verdict IN acc0r-
dance with the law and the evidence, and
the court shall be satisfied of the truth of
the statement. There is a similar proyis
ion OF law in this State which has been
upheled by the Court of Appeals As TO
the constitution of the Chicago jury
which Mr. Tucker declares 10 have been
packed this is 10 be remembered. Eleven
Of the twelve jurors were accepted by the
defendants Though one of them was
challenged for cause. and the challenge
oyerruled, after further questioning he
was accepted, although the defense at
that time had l42 percmptory challenges
unused When the eleventh juror was
accepted. the defense still had f0rtythree
peremptOry challenges, and used them an
with little or no reference to the qualifi
cations of those called so that the
twelfth bad TO be obtained without Che
privilege of perempiory challenge by the
defense.
As electi0n-day draws near the yiriu0us
enthusiasm of the Republicans for tenn
perancc increases To hear The Republi-
can orators one would suppose that the
Democratic party was the Rum Power
and chat the Republican party had sud-
denly gone again into the high moral
principle business To lisa glorious sight
To- see the Republicans making last DIES
perate stand for temperance. Indeed. If
their journals are not mistaken, the Pro-
hibitioni-ts are doing a grieyous wrong
I'm not getting ont OF the way Of such a
noble band of reformers.
Singularly enough the Republican
brewers and gin-mill keepers are not dis
turbed by the various spoutings against
the saloons.-Ner Iork SIM.
The AHenaeum of September 10Th re-
views Robert Louis Steycn-on's new vol
ume of poems, "Underwo0ds The arli-
Gle runs from praise to blame and them
as though ashamed of us own fault hnd-
ing. PUSHES back 90 encomium. The critic
finds lifting opportunity for approval ia
the lines written during illness, which
are SO singularly. almost pathetically free
from "a sick man pecyishness
81 -ita and wait pair of oars
Ou CTS Eiysifn river shores
Where tine immortal acad have safe.
IT'S mime 90 $40 Hul me iflt.
T0 ca-ccnd lIft.s .ituIcI
without rcmor-r. without regret
And sing nay almd -cnetriN
Among the will W, of the ,ty N.'
The Hrald says with regard 90 the case
of the Anarchists
TO this general rule there is am excep-
ton The courts of the United States
have jurisdiction of any question arising
under the constitution or laws of the
/ nited States Hence. 10 them may be-
appealed from "a State Court any crimi
nal case involving @ Federal question
But they have no jurisdiction over, and
can take no cognilance of a criminal case
involving purely State questions.
Despite the statements of James Rus
sell Lowell, Whittier and Henry Irving,
there was nothing appropriate in diyid-
ing the honors between the worlds great
est play. wright and poet and England's
most stolid monarch. If Queen Victoria
had ever done aught 90 advance the